This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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Fast Forward A gunman rammed a Michigan synagogue. Its security preparations may have saved lives.
'Everybody flees danger, and our team went straight toward it,' said Rabbi Jen Lader of Temple Israel
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Fast Forward Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack dead after ramming car into temple, police say
No other major injuries were reported at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, a major Reform synagogue that also has a preschool
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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
The fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent has made terrifying family memories feel too close to reality
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Fast Forward From Shabbat dinners to ‘Talmudic discourse’: Jewish women killed in NYC shooting leave legacies of faith and family
Wesley LePatner and Julia Hyman were members of New York’s Jewish community
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Fast Forward ‘I was first and foremost Jewish,’ said Wesley LePatner, killed in NYC shooting
LePatner was an active member in New York's Jewish community
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Opinion After the DC shooting, both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups are failing
The deaths of the murdered couple demand deeper introspection from both groups
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Culture On the northwest side of Chicago, my old Jewish neighborhood may soon live on in infamy
Albany Park was home to Rosenblum's Bookstore, Weinberg's Clothing — and also alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian TikToker with 3.4 million followers endorses Capital Jewish Museum murders
Christensen joined a growing collection of voices openly supporting the attack. He may be the one with the largest audience
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Fast Forward Elected PA Jewish judge leaves Democratic party, citing ‘disturbingly common’ antisemitism
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Fast Forward At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Israeli report on ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence seeks to shift debate from denial to accountability
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News Mamdani supersizes NYC hate crimes office, as tensions simmer over synagogue protests